Tom Bamforth is an aid worker and writer. He has worked in humanitarian response and international development since 2005 when he was caught in the Pakistan earthquake while on an archeological tour of the North West Frontier Province, and he has worked and travelled extensively in the Pacific since 2008. His writing has appeared in Granta, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Island, The Age, and Guardian. He is the author of Deep Field: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Aid Relief (Hardie Grant 2014). www.tombamforth.com